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The emphasis on advanced technology for the success of business firms and ventures has driven IT companies to give prominence to agile service management. Being synchronous with one another, agile and service management collaborates with corresponding modules to encourage a continuous learning atmosphere by developing a better understanding between operational and development teams.
Agile service management in practice provides flexibility to the workplace, involves customer feedbacks and changes during the project development phase, and places the right employee in the right position.
Involvement of customers in the project during the development phase
Translating agile methodology into service management at a workplace requires synchronization of IT with tasks that add more value and prominence to customers. IT needs to always manage and align with shifting service management practices to render fast and current services to the customers. Furthermore, agile service management, in some cases, involves customers in various operations at the earliest possible stage; this involvement eliminates a great deal of confusion and errors from the start of the project.
Working flexibility and smooth workflow
Practicing agile service management refers to accepting and implementing changes from customers while the project is in the development phase. The management requires the designing and planning of a particular project to be flexible enough to accommodate the requested changes. Flexibility in the project leads to introducing the right policy in the workforce, and thereby, increase their efficiency. Keeping the services and operations straightforward and less cumbersome ensures that the workflow is smooth and accepted by all the employees and managers.
Making Incident management tool compatible with agile service management
Stripping out features and functionalities that do not aid in customer satisfaction or do not add value to customer requests is a step forward toward achieving agile service management in the incident management tool. Incident management tool should be focused towards the necessary steps that lead towards processing an incident at the earliest, and any functionality not contributing to it should be removed to improve agility and incident processing time.